His full name is Fayeq Abdullah Mohammed Rasul, he is the son of the famous Kurdish poet Zewar (1875-1948). He was born in 1908 in Sulaymaniyah.
As a bright prediction for a happy future, his father named him Fayeq. He later chose the nickname Bakhtiar and became known as Bakhtiar Zewar in the world of Kurdish literature.
He began his education in a room with a mullah. He studied with his father and later until the sixth grade of elementary school. He was later employed as a veterinary doctor. During this work, he traveled to many areas of Sulaymaniyah and Erbil and experienced the love and beauty of Kurdistan. During his working life, after the opening of the night school in Sulaymaiyah, ignoring his illness, old age, employment duties and life problems, he returned to school and received his middle school diploma. He served for fourteen years and six months.
Bakhtiar suffered from mental illness since childhood and was very affected by this disease. From 1948, after the death of his father, he was completely depressed because of this disease. He underwent a brain surgery in Baghdad, which later proved ineffective as he died six months later on #31-12-1952# and was buried in the cemetery of Joga Hill in Sulaymaniyah, next to his father's grave.
He was born without vision in one eye, and got married only two years before his death, leaving no children behind.
Bakhtiar Zewar began writing poetry in 1925, at the age of seventeen, and the was influenced by the writers and poets of his era.
It is clear that his writings and poetry are influenced greatly by his father’s style, who was also a talented poet, a religious scholar, a prominent schoolteacher, and a social leader. His father (Zewar) was always enthusiastic about literary, social, educational, and cultural meetings. Bakhtiar was born in this environment, listening to his poetry, thought, and literary condition.[2]